How Can GenXers and Millennials Find Common Ground?

In 2018, it can be said that technology, sports, and many other businesses are a young person’s game because the Millennial generation sees people in their later thirties, forties, and fifties as unable to adapt to the changing technology landscape. But, what they forget is that those children of the 1960s and 1970s were the last generation that was genuinely analog and the first adopters of the digital age. By analog, I mean that the children growing up in the late Sixties and Seventies had only three television channels; only one television in the entire house; and, they also did not have the internet with which to look up information. Instead, they had to ride their bicycle or get a ride from their parents to the local library and look through the paper card catalog to find the book that would give them the research material required for their assignment.

In the summertime, the GenX children were outside playing with their friends and interacting in person. These interactions taught those children how to resolve disagreements, converse with people of all ages, and understand what it meant to have character and integrity. The lessons learned by that generation help them succeed in their personal and professional lives. The question this author often asks himself is how can GenXers who grew up with rotary phones, no caller-id, no voicemail, and no cable…